Turkish Lawmakers Authorize Sending Troops to Fight in Libya
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-01-03
The move to support current government in Tripoli is seen as a threat to regional security and is denounced by Greece, Israel and Cyprus.
truthdig.com/articles/turkish-lawmakers-authorize-sending-troops-to-fight-in-libya/

The UN Predicted Gaza Would be "Unliveable" by 2020. Israel's Deliberate Plan to "Destroy Life" in Palestine?
Tania Hary | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-02
While revelers around the world are making new year's resolutions for 2020, in the Gaza Strip, a different kind of assessment is taking place as Palestinians try to determine whether, or how, they can survive the next 10 years. In …
globalresearch.ca/un-predicted-gaza-unlivable-2020/5699342

Archbishop Atallah Hanna: The Palestinian Christian Leader Israel Loves to Hate
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2020-01-02
Archbishop Hanna has been on Israel's radar for many years, as his kind of leadership is problematic from the viewpoint of a hegemonic power that requires utter and absolute submission.
mintpressnews.com/archbishop-atallah-hanna-the-palestinian-christian-leader-israel-loves-to-hate/263812/

Archbishop Atallah Hanna: The Palestinian Christian Leader Israel Loves to Hate
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2020-01-02
Archbishop Hanna has been on Israel's radar for many years, as his kind of leadership is problematic from the viewpoint of a hegemonic power that requires utter and absolute submission.
mintpressnews.com/archbishop-atallah-hanna-the-palestinian-christian-leader-israel-loves-to-hate/263812/

Israel Demolishes Newly Built Houses of Palestinian Families on New Year's Day
Sondus Ewies | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-02
Israeli forces demolished two houses 0n Wednesday belonging to Palestinian families in the Silwan neighbourhood of occupied East Jerusalem, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. | After two years of construction, the al-Khalialeh families had made ready their houses to move into …
globalresearch.ca/israel-demolishes-newly-built-houses-palestinian-families-new-years-day/5699380

Gaza Officials Claim PA Helped Israel Kill Islamic Jihad Chief
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-02
Gaza officials made public Thursday a recording of a phone call allegedly between a Palestinian Authority (PA) intelligence officer and Israel, accusing the PA of having assisted Israel in the killing of senior Islamic Jihad leader Bahaa Abu al-Ata in November. | RELATED: | On the Road to Gaza: The Freedom Flotilla Will Sail Again | In the recording,…
telesurenglish.net/news/Gaza-Releases-Record-Says-PA-Helped-Israel-Kill-Islamic-Jihad-Chief-20200102-0011.html

Palestinians Decry ICC Prosecutor's Delay of Israeli War Crimes Investigation
Prof. Marjorie Cohn | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-02
In a significant development for Israeli accountability, Fatou Bensouda, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), seeks to launch an investigation into war crimes committed in Palestine. But she has established an unnecessary and politically suspect condition to …
globalresearch.ca/palestinians-decry-icc-prosecutors-delay-israeli-war-crimes-investigation/5699367

Israel, Greece, Cyprus to Sign Pipeline Deal in Mediterranean
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-02
The Mediterranean nations of Greece, Cyprus and Israel are expected to sign a new agreement to build a large pipeline that stretches nearly 2,000 kilometers across the sea. | RELATED: | Israel's Top Court Hears Case on Netanyahu's Political Future | If the agreement goes through, the subsea pipeline will be able to carry natural gas from the eastern Mediterranean region to the developing gas industry in southern Europe. | According to the Reuters News Agency, the three countries…
telesurenglish.net/news/Israel-Greece-Cyprus-to-Sign-Pipeline-Deal-in-Mediterranean-20200102-0003.html

Netanyahu: I'll Request Immunity to Avoid Corruption Trial
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-02
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Wednesday in a live television appearance that he will ask the Knesset — Israel's parliament — for immunity to avoid being brought to trial in three corruption cases. | RELATED: | Israel's Top Court Hears Case on Netanyahu's Political Future | "I intend to make a request to the…
telesurenglish.net/news/Netanyahu-Ill-Request-Immunity-to-Avoid-Corruption-Trial-20200102-0014.html

Canada, Israel and the UN Security Council
Hanna Kawas | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-02
Canadian activists have compiled a study of Canada's 2019 voting record at the United Nations on resolutions [see list below] that document and censure Israeli violations of international law. | There was much fanfare made about Canada's orphan "yes" vote at …
globalresearch.ca/canada-israel-un-security-council/5699389

Bid to keep Netanyahu out of PM's office after election because he's facing bribery charges shot down in court
rt.com | 2020-01-02
Israel's High Court of Justice has refused an attempt to keep Benjamin Netanyahu from taking the office of prime minister should his party win the snap election in March, over the corruption charges against him. | A petition signed by 67 former government officials asked the court to rule that Netanyahu would not be fit for forming a new government due to his being prosecuted. The court ruled that it indeed had the power to rule on the matter, contrary to claims from the Likud party's lawyers, but refused to do so before the outcome of the election is clear. | It clears the way for Netanyahu to run in the snap…
rt.com/news/477326-netanyahu-bribery-election-office-court/

Iran's Soleimani and Iraq's Muhandis Killed in US Air Strike
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-02
Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani, head of the elite Quds Force, and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis were killed late on Thursday in an airstrike on their convoy in Baghdad airport, an Iraqi militia spokesman told Reuters. | "The American and Israeli enemy is responsible for killing the mujahideen Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and Qassem Soleimani," said Ahmed al-Assadi, a spokesman for Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces umbrella grouping of Iran-backed militias. | According to sources cited by the Lebanese channel Al Mayadeen, the explosions occurred in the vicinity of an Iraqi Air Force base, wes…
telesurenglish.net/news/Irans-Soleimani-and-Iraqs-Muhandis-Killed-in-US-Air-Strike-20200102-0022.html

Netanyahu Seeking Immunity from Prosecution?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-02
According to the Times of Israel, citing a Channel 13 report, Netanyahu "has made a final decision to ask the Knesset to grant him immunity from prosecution in three corruption cases and informed Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein in writing of …
globalresearch.ca/netanyahu-seeking-immunity-prosecution/5699275

African Migrants in Egypt Face Increasingly Violent Racism
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-02
Sub-Saharan African migrants who flee war, violence, and poverty in their homelands face huge racial harassment and discrimination in Egypt, an Associated Press investigation revealed Thursday. | RELATED: | Libya Militias Divert EU Funds for Migrants, Exploit Them: Report | In Egypt's capital Cairo, reporters have been visiting migrant communities, where at least two dozen sub-Saharan Africans, including four children, recounted the racist insults, sexual harassment, and othe…
telesurenglish.net/news/African-Migrants-in-Egypt-Face-Increasingly-Violent-Racism-20200102-0016.html

O fascismo brasileiro é racista, nà£o nacionalista
Yuri Martins Fontes | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-02
A professora Marilena Chauí, em recente artigo sobre o novo movimento ultrarreacionário (que ascendeu e já dá mostras de cair), afirma que essa extrema direita neoliberal nà£o deve ser denominada "fascista", pois que pratica o enfraquecimento do Estado (conforme receita …
globalresearch.ca/o-fascismo-brasileiro-e-racista-nao-nacionalista/5699412

2 Democrats Join Republicans to Ask Top Court to Overturn Roe v. Wade
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-01-02
This article was originally published on Common Dreams. | Reproductive rights advocates on Thursday seized on an amicus brief signed by more than 200 members of Congress, including two conservative Democrats, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to consider overturning Roe vs. Wade. | The brief was signed by 168 members of the House and 39 senators. The two House Demo…
truthdig.com/articles/two-democrats-join-republicans-to-ask-top-court-to-overturn-roe-v-wade/

A More Perfect Union
Wim Laven | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-02
Current partisan politics frequently returns to questions and debates about the supreme law of the land–The Constitution–as it should, because two articles of impeachment against Donald Trump passed on December 18, 2019. This affirmed an ugly truth about Trump's illegitimate use of the office of the White House. Trump will go down in history for…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/02/a-more-perfect-union/

Federal appeals courts give workers some wins
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-01-02
WASHINGTON–The U.S. Supreme Court hasn't taken, much less tackled, workers' rights cases in the last six months, but the federal appeals courts have–and they've given workers some wins. That's not to say the appellate victories would immediately set precedents and lay down the law, so to speak, for workers nationwide. That's what the U.S. Supreme …
peoplesworld.org/article/federal-appeals-courts-give-workers-some-wins/

Strauss's 'De-Nazified' Radetzky March Ring in Vienna's NYE
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-02
Once again, the Vienna Philharmonic has greeted New Year with its traditional concert and for its 80th-year event organizers left some space for Beethoven among the members of the Strauss family, and showcased a "de-Nazified" version of the "Radetzky March." | RELATED: | Syd Mead, Conceptual Artist Behind 'Blade Runner,' Dies at 86 | The main celebration was the 250th anniversary of the birth of German composer Ludwig van Beethoven, who composed iconic pieces in Vienna. | The condu…
telesurenglish.net/news/Strausss-De-Nazified-Radetzky-March-Ring-in-Viennas-NYE-20200102-0017.html

Our Nazis: the Gehlen Org
Gaither Stewart | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-02
In February 2019 Germany opened a brand new intelligence complex in the city of Berlin. The new headquarters of the BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst or Federal Intelligence Service) occupies a huge space–by the way, much as STASI or State Security Service once did in East Berlin the former German Democratic Republic–and supposedly employs a total of over…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/02/our-nazis-the-gehlen-org/

Our Nazis: the Gehlen Org
Gaither Stewart | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-02
In February 2019 Germany opened a brand new intelligence complex in the city of Berlin. The new headquarters of the BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst or Federal Intelligence Service) occupies a huge space–by the way, much as STASI or State Security Service once did in East Berlin the former German Democratic Republic–and supposedly employs a total of over…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/02/our-nazis-the-gehlen-org/

'Lacking basic sensitivity': Polish school in trouble for re-enactment of WW2 atrocity with kids in Nazi garb & death camp robes
rt.com | 2020-01-02
A primary school in Poland has been drawn into a national scandal over an event in which children, dressed in Nazi uniforms and prison robes, re-enacted the gassing of prisoners, in a performance meant to be solemn and touching. | The controversial presentation took place in early December when the primary school in Labunia was bestowed with the honorary title of the Children of the Zamosc. The name refers to thousands of Polish children, who had been rounded up and deported by the occupying Nazi forces as part of an ethnic-cleansing campaign. Zamosc, the city northwest of the Labunia commune, was the focus of…
rt.com/news/477322-poland-nazi-uniforms-children/

A Palestinian Mandela and an Israeli de Klerk
Gershon Baskin | zcomm.org | 2020-01-02
Barghouthi is a patriotic Palestinian leader and he is someone who supported peace with Israel and recognizing Israel's right to exist. It would be wise to begin engaging him in prison as a legitimate leader of his people…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/a-palestinian-mandela-and-an-israeli-de-klerk/

Palestinians Decry ICC Prosecutor's Delay of Israeli War Crimes Investigation
Marjorie Cohn | zcomm.org | 2020-01-02
In a significant development for Israeli accountability, Fatou Bensouda, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), seeks to launch an investigation into war crimes committed in Palestine…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/palestinians-decry-icc-prosecutors-delay-of-israeli-war-crimes-investigation/

ANALYSIS: Netanyahu trial could be watershed in Israeli politics
yenisafak.com | 2020-01-02
With Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announcing his decision on Nov. 21 to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel stepped into a whole new political uncertainty.In 2016, Israeli police launched an investigation into allegations against Netanyahu, and for the first time in Israeli politics, a process to bring an incumbent prime minister to justice was launched. So what kind of future awaits Netanyahu, the Likud party and Israeli politics, which have struggled the past year with consecutive elections?- Political gridlockThe political career of Netanyahu, who has been the most prominent right-wing poli…
yenisafak.com/en/world/analysis-netanyahu-trial-could-be-watershed-in-israeli-politics-3508724

Austrian coalition deal includes headscarf ban, preventive custody
yenisafak.com | 2020-01-02
A deal between Austria's conservatives and Greens to form a governing coalition includes banning headscarves in school until the age of 14 and preventive custody for potentially dangerous immigrants, several Austrian media reported on Thursday.The measures are part of what conservative leader Sebastian Kurz describes as his tough stance on illegal immigration and "political Islam", aimed at appealing to his base but also to disillusioned former supporters of the far right, whose coalition with his party collapsed in May.Kurz and Greens leader Werner Kogler said on Wednesday they have reached a deal that should ma…
yenisafak.com/en/world/austrian-coalition-deal-includes-headscarf-ban-preventive-custody-3508718

Labour's Patriotism Test
Kenneth Surin | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-02
In the recent UK general election the winning Conservatives managed to convince voters nostalgic for the days of Empire that the repeated slogan "Get Brexit Done" was somehow the guarantee of a "Rule Britannia" resurgence of patriotism. In addition to "Get Brexit Done", the Tories had "Take Back Control" as their other election slogan. Both…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/02/labours-patriotism-test/

Selected Articles: Israel's Deliberate Plan to "Destroy Life" in Palestine?
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-02
Every day of 2019 we have provided you with articles that report, break down and analyze the pressing issues of our times by authors from all over the globe. We have kept access to the site free of charge so …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-israel-deliberate-plan-destroy-life-palestine/5699370

Netanyahu's Eligibility to Form Government Considered by Supreme Court
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-01-01
On Tuesday morning, the Israeli Supreme Court opened a special session to consider the petition against the eligibility of Benjamin Netanyahu, the interim Israeli Prime Minister, in forming a government, in light of criminal charges against him, the Palestine News Network reported. The Hebrew newspaper "Yediot Aharonot" said that "a …
imemc.org/article/netanyahus-eligibility-to-form-government-considered-by-supreme-court/

The Year in Palestine and Israel: Part One
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-01-01
The Real News Network's Marc Steiner and Shir Hever discuss the upcoming election, corruption charges against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and…
therealnews.com/stories/the-year-in-palestine-and-israel-part-one

Israeli Forces Seize Residential Tents, Animal Barns in Jordan Valley
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-01-01
Israeli forces stormed, Wednesday afternoon, Atouf village, southeast of the city of Tubas, and dismantled tents and animal barns, and seized them, the Palestinian News and Info Agency reported. Atouf village council, Abdullah Bisharat said that the soldiers dismantled three residential tents and barns, located in the Jordan Valley, northern …
imemc.org/article/israeli-forces-seize-residential-tents-animal-barns-in-jordan-valley/

Israeli Soldiers Abduct Five Palestinians, Injure One, In Jenin
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-01-01
Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, Jenin city, Jenin refugee camp, and Qabatia town, in northern West Bank, searched and ransacked many homes and abducted five Palestinians, in addition to wounding one during ensuing protests. Media sources in Jenin said the soldiers shot Jamil Nabil Awwad, 22, …
imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-abduct-five-palestinians-injure-one-in-jenin/

Who is Archbishop Atallah Hanna, and Why Israel Hates Him
Ramzy Baroud | commondreams.org | 2020-01-01
Hanna advocates unity among Palestinians and for the sake of Palestine. (Photo: rpb1001/flickr/cc) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/views/2020/01/01/who-archbishop-atallah-hanna-and-why-israel-hates-him?cd-origin=rss

Palestinian administrative detainee Ahmad Zahran has been on hunger strike for 100 days
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-01-01
Israeli authorities had earlier committed to not renewing his period of administrative detention once it expired in October but failed to honor their promise. This led Ahmad Zahran to once again launch a hunger strike…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/01/01/palestinian-administrative-detainee-ahmad-zahran-has-been-on-hunger-strike-for-100-days/

Michael Lynk: ICC Probe "Momentous Step Forward in the Quest for Accountability"
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-01-01
A UN human rights expert, on Tuesday, described the International Criminal Court's decision to investigate Israeli war crimes in Palestine as a "momentous step forward in the quest for accountability", the Quds news Network reported. "Accountability has, until now, been largely missing in action throughout the 52-year-old occupation," said Michael …
imemc.org/article/michael-lynk-icc-probe-momentous-step-forward-in-the-quest-for-accountability/

Palestinian Ordered to Remove Room, Balcony, Olive Trees
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-01-01
A Palestinian resident of Khirbet Ibzeiq, was ordered by the Israeli military government, Wednesday, to remove a room and a balcony built on his own land as well as olive trees, the Palestinian News and Info Agency (WAFA) reported. The land, located north of the city of Tubas, in the …
imemc.org/article/palestinian-ordered-to-remove-room-balcony-olive-trees/

Army Abducts Four Palestinians In Hebron
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-01-01
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, Beit Ummar and the al-'Arroub refugee camp, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, before abducting four Palestinians, including three former political prisoners, and summoned one for interrogation. The Hebron office of the Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) has reported that the …
imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-abduct-four-palestinians-in-hebron-6/

Soldiers Demolish Two Flats In Silwan
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-01-01
Israeli soldiers demolished, Wednesday, two Palestinian flats in Silwan town, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied East Jerusalem. Khaled Abu Tayeh, a member of the Follow-Up Committee in Silwan, said dozens of soldiers and personnel of the Jerusalem Municipality, invaded the town, before surrounding the two flats. Abu Tayeh …
imemc.org/article/soldiers-demolish-two-flats-in-silwan/

Israeli cops disguised as Palestinians attacked by Jewish teens in no-Arabs-allowed settlement, 2 arrested
rt.com | 2020-01-01
Two teenage boys from the Jewish-only settlement of Bat Ayin have been arrested for attacking a pair of cops disguised as Palestinian laborers in what the right-wing legal aid group defending them has condemned as a "provocation." | The youths pounced on the officers dressed as Palestinian technicians, hitting and pepper-spraying them, after the men refused to give a clear explanation of why they were walking around the center of the West Bank settlement on Tuesday, local media reported. They were subsequently taken in for questioning and, their lawyer Moshe Polsky has claimed, held overnight. The boys' names…
rt.com/news/477288-israeli-settlers-arrested-cops-palestinians/

Israeli Forces Storm Uproot Palestinian Olive Trees South of Bethlehem
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-01-01
Israeli occupation bulldozers uprooted olive trees in Al-Jabaa village, south of Bethlehem, Wednesday morning, according to the Palestinian News and Info Agency (WAFA). The head of the village council of Al-Jabaa, Yiyab Mashaalah described a large force of the Israeli occupation army, accompanied by two bulldozers, storming the area of …
imemc.org/article/israeli-forces-storm-uproot-palestinian-olive-trees-south-of-bethlehem/

Soldiers Abduct Two Palestinians Near Ramallah
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-01-01
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday at dawn, two young Palestinian men from Beit Rima and Deir Ghassana towns, northwest of Ramallah in central West Bank, and abducted two young men. Several army jeeps invaded Beit Rima town, before the soldiers stormed and searched homes and abducted Saji Nitham Rimawi, 24. …
imemc.org/article/soldiers-abduct-two-palestinians-near-ramallah/

Gun Basics–And Other Lessons
Karen Rothmyer | thenation.com | 2020-01-01
Gun Basics–And Other Lessons…
thenation.com/article/local-politics-patriotism-guns/

Peace Bridge, Derry City, Ireland, December
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-01-01
By Niall àì Brolcháin — IMEMC News: The Derry branch of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) held their annual New Year's Eve vigil on Tuesday, December 31, 2019, on Derry's famous Peace Bridge to stand in solidarity with their Palestinian brothers and sisters in their fight for freedom, justice, and equality. …
imemc.org/article/peace-bridge-derry-city-ireland-december/

Prominent national groups join Coalition to March on the DNC
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-01-01
Milwaukee, WI – Three national groups with large followings, the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, the International League of People's Struggle, and the Students for a Democratic Society recently endorsed the Coalition to March on the Democratic National Convention (DNC). | Ryan Hamann of the Coalition to March on the DNC said, "We are picking up new endorsements for our march in Milwaukee, the opening day of the Democratic National Convention, July 13. We are united by a people's agenda and dozens of groups are signing on." | Hamann continued, "We will lead a mass rally and march with…
fightbacknews.org/2020/1/1/prominent-national-groups-join-coalition-march-dnc

Far Right Movements Suffered Big Losses in 2019. But They Are Far From Defeated
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-01
The U.S. far right continued to be very active in 2019. The good news is that, surveying their actions for the year, those far rightists outside of the GOP have had less growth and street presence than in 2018. Doxxing, lawsuits, a loss in interest from conservatives and state repression have all taken their toll. The far right's boom years of 2016 and 2017 are starting to fade away, but it remains an energized movement. The white nationalist wing was still far more active in 2019 than it was for…
truthout.org/articles/in-2019-the-far-right-suffered-big-losses-but-they-are-far-from-defeated/

Who is Archbishop Atallah Hanna, and Why Israel Hates him
Ramzy Baroud | zcomm.org | 2020-01-01
Hanna has served as the Head of the Sebastia Diocese of the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem since 2005. Since then, he has used his leadership position to advocate for Palestinian unity in all of its manifestations…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/who-is-archbishop-atallah-hanna-and-why-israel-hates-him/

Federal Judge Blocks NC's Voter ID Law, Citing State's 'Sordid History' of Racist Voter Suppression
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-01-01
Civil rights advocates on Tuesday praised a federal judge in North Carolina who struck down the state's new voter ID law, saying there was likely "discriminatory intent" behind state Republicans' attempt to force voters to present specific forms of ID at the polls. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/news/2020/01/01/federal-judge-blocks-ncs-voter-id-law-citing-states-sordid-history-racist-voter?cd-origin=rss

Israel/Palestine war crimes probe 'momentous step forward', says UN rights expert
news.un.org | 2019-12-31
An independent UN human rights expert hailed on Tuesday, the International Criminal Court's (ICC) decision to consider a formal criminal investigation into allegations of war crimes in Palestine as a "momentous step forward in the quest for accountability" in the five-decade-long Israeli occupation.
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Who is Archbishop Atallah Hanna, and Why Israel Hates Him
Ramzy Baroud | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-12-31
"They will run and not grow weary," is a quote from the Bible (Isaiah, 40: 41) that adorns the homepage of Kairos Palestine. This important document, which parallels a similar initiative emanating from South Africa during the anti-apartheid struggle years, has come to represent the unified voice of the Palestinian Christian community everywhere. One of the …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/12/who-is-archbishop-atallah-hanna-and-why-israel-hates-him/

This F#$%ing Decade
Joan Walsh | thenation.com | 2019-12-31
For years, media and political elites refused to acknowledge the growing racism and radicalism of the Republican party. Their "both-sidesism" led to Trump's GOP takeover.
thenation.com/article/decade-politics-both-sides/